Today we went to the Melbourne Cup, the largest race day in Australia. Victoria has a state holiday to celebrate so we all went off to watch the big race and soak up the atmosphere along with 106,000 others. It was red hot too, the temps hit 31 degs C so it was sweltering....good excuse for plenty of beer. We saw history being made as Makybe Diva won for the 3rd time in a row, the first time in 144 years that it has ever happened. Of course, I didn't back her to win. We did however come up trumps in the last two races of the day and came out $70 to the better for the days betting. Fantastic day to round off my holidays.....sadly its back to reality and the 4 letter word tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Day at the races
Today we went to the Melbourne Cup, the largest race day in Australia. Victoria has a state holiday to celebrate so we all went off to watch the big race and soak up the atmosphere along with 106,000 others. It was red hot too, the temps hit 31 degs C so it was sweltering....good excuse for plenty of beer. We saw history being made as Makybe Diva won for the 3rd time in a row, the first time in 144 years that it has ever happened. Of course, I didn't back her to win. We did however come up trumps in the last two races of the day and came out $70 to the better for the days betting. Fantastic day to round off my holidays.....sadly its back to reality and the 4 letter word tomorrow.
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Good to see you're introducing Ethan to drinking and gambling at a nice young age!
And get him down off your Dad's shoulders - he'll get hit by an aeroplane or get a nosebleed up there!
Do you know where I can find out more about pop r & b lyrics by the way?
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